Housing decisions in urban Africa depend heavily on access to land, marriage and household patterns, and clients' locational intentions. This paper describes the Asante attitude to property as it springs...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD45Date: November 30, 1983Author:
Tipple,Frida Elisabeth
In recent years, techniques referred to as load management have begun to play an important role in shaping the patterns of electricity consumption in industrial countries. Along with pricing, a variety...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY11Date: November 30, 1983
To formulate this report on the evaluation of urban projects, the author conducted evaluative research by living with project beneficiaries for 14 months, divided equally between a low-income settlement...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: UDD36Date: November 30, 1983Author:
Salmen,Lawrence F.
IDA is the single most important source of concessional assistance and is crucial for the further development of the low-income countries. It has a record of solid achievements, it is essential that negotiations...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151539Date: November 23, 1983
This press release announces the World Bank has granted two loans totaling Sixty-Five Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars to Panama on November 17, 1983. The loans will be used on projects involving trade...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 155951Date: November 17, 1983
This paper examines policy responses to external shocks in socialist and in private market economies during the 1973-78 period. The distinction between the two groups is made on the basis of the ownerships...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: DRD61Date: November 1, 1983Author:
Balassa,Bela ;
Tyson, Laura
This paper suggests simple operational approaches to the screening and economic appraisal of road components of rural roads and rural development projects. It is based on a review of appraisal reports...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP610Date: October 31, 1983Author:
BEENHAKKER, H. ;
LAGO, A.
This study presents estimates of borrowing functions based on rural household data for India. It improves upon existing work in three key areas. First, it is shown that existing studies have used an inappropriate...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP341Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Iqbal,Farrukh
This paper addresses the question of the welfare consequences of international indebtedness, in order to determine whether there exists a presumption in favor of policy interventions in the process by...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8412Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Harberger,Arnold
This paper deals with the issue of adjustment compensation on policy changes. These changes may produce gains for some sectors of the population and losses for others. The premise that an effective responsive...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8413Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Rottenberg,Ian
Household data from a one percent sample of the 1970 Brazilian census are used to analyze the effect of public inputs, i.e. the supply of schooling, on children's school attainment in Brazil. The household...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8315Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Birdsall,Nancy M.
The purpose of this study is to review the trends in Thailand's accumulation of foreign debt, to assess the methods currently employed to manage and control foreign borrowing, and to propose changes in...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8404Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Kharas,Homi
This paper presents a cost effectiveness analysis of blindness prevention by the Onchocerciasis Control Program in Upper Volta, utilizing recent epidemiological data on changes in the incidence of blindness....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: RES7Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Prescott, Nicholas ;
Prost, Andre
The central focus of this study is on the analysis of the effects of government price intervention in the agricultural sector, with the intention of developing proposals for policies which would increase...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8311Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Robertson, J.
Since 1968, Hungary has attempted to combine central planning of the economy with a significant decentralization of economic decision making at the enterprise level. In pursuing this objective, Hungarian...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8314Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Knight,Peter T.
This paper provides a survey of the issues involved in the design of stabilization measures aimed at either correcting excessive balance of payments deficits or moderating the rate of inflation or both....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8417Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Ahamed,Liaquat A.
In this paper, Identifying the Basic Conditions for Economic Generation of Public Electricity from Surplus Bagasse in Sugar Mills, the authors posit that the most serious obstacle to economic progress...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY13Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Suzor, N. ;
Bouvet, P.
This paper attempts to examine with some detail Chile's economic performance since 1974. It evaluates the the economic policies of the period, placing emphasis in the stabilization adn liberalization programs....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: CPD8410Date: October 31, 1983Author:
Edwards, S.
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, helping finance a project on October 17, 1983, to rehabilitate three tea estates and associated...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153119Date: October 17, 1983
This press release announces the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, help finance the seventy-five million US dollars project of Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153118Date: October 17, 1983
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